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GENERAL WINDOWS PHONE SUPPORT IS OFF-TOPIC. Windows Phone is Microsoft's mobile operating system and software development platform. Use this tag for programming questions that specifically relate to programming or debugging on a Windows Phone. Windows Phone questions that are not programming-related can be asked on https://windowsphone.stackexchange.com/

Windows Phone is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft, and is the successor to its Windows Mobile platform.

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Automatic Dark/Light Icon Support in Windows Phone 8

I think this is a very common problem, but I cannot find a suitable solution for me. As you all know, WP supports a dark and a light theme. The user can change the theme and there are ways to override his decision and to display everything in the…
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Play an audio file in Windows 7 Phone

I am working on Windows 7 based application development in Silverlight. I have not been able to find a way to play a an audio file in windows 7 phone programmatically. I have been googling it since past few days but i could not get any solution of…
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simply stop an async method

I have this method which plays a sound, when the user taps on the screen, & I want it to stop playing it when the user taps the screen again. But the problem is "DoSomething()" method doesn't stop, it keeps going till it finishes. bool keepdoing =…
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Set up ads in Windows Phone 8

I found a few scattered responses to similar problems (mostly with Windows Phone 7) but wanted to post an answer that contained all requirements for Windows Phone 8 Ads. I've been having some issues setting an ad up in Windows Phone 8. Every time I…
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Remove all child elements from a StackPanel

I have the following xaml code: //some code Then I add elements to StackPanel. But at a given moment I need to remove all child elemnts of Mess. How can I do it?
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How to launch IE7 from a Windows Phone App?

How do you launch an instance of IE from an app? Is it better practice to page to a window with and browser window?
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returning a false when got 400 status of webservice in JSON

In my codebehind file I call this function: private void loginAction(object sender, TappedRoutedEventArgs e) { Webservice webservice = new Webservice(); webservice.getUser(txtLogin.Text, txtPass.Text); } Then in webservice I do this: public…
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How to get the device platform on Windows 10

Since one release binary will run on pc, xbox and phones, I need a way to fetch the device type on runtime. It is doable by checking with the ApiInformation for present types, methods etc., but I believe there should be a more reliable way.
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WP 8.1 Runtime code to make phone call, send SMS & send Email (not the Silverlight 8.1)

I'm writing an app which will make a phone call, send sms or email just like the People app in wp 8.1 . So far I've found a link form msdn which said "Applies to: Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1". So here the code:from this…
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Call back to main thread from a Task

As i don' know about threads much i have a question. I wanna do something in background and in background method i wanna switch back to the main thread on certain condition otherwise work in background. How can i achieve this functionality? I am…
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Develop for Windows Phone 7 (or 7.1) using Visual Studio 2012 (RTM,Premium)

Is it possible to get the WindowsPhone 7.1.1 sdk to work with Visual Studio 2012? Edit: As stated in the title of my question: I wanted to know whether its possible to develop windows phone 7.1.1 apps using Visual Studio 2012. I already tried…
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Want to start with Windows Phone 7 development

As just now, I heard about the Windows Phone 7 development. So I would like to know the following things regarding Windows Phone 7: From where can I start with Windows Phone 7 development? What are the best books/article/code blog/tutorial,…
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MissingManifestResourceException on Windows Phone 8.1 with .resx resources

I'm developing a Windows Phone 8.1 app that also targets Android(Xamarin) As ever I added my string resources(.resx) on a PCL and referenced them on my launcher project to use it on my views, this all works fine on WP 8.1 silverlight but on the…
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XDomainRequest vs XMLHTTPRequest

We are creating an application using PixiJS which has a dynamic json loader in it. It loads the .json files using the following: if(window.XDomainRequest) { this.ajaxRequest = new window.XDomainRequest(); } else if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { …
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How can i add AppBar in Windows Phone 8.1

In windows phone 8, its very easy to add an App Bar and manage it, but now i test new windows phone 8.1 SDK to build a project with new Geofencing feature but i don't know how to add an App Bar in the App.
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